Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School leaders are expected to provide an update on the district’s financial shortfalls on Tuesday night. The district’s shortfall of $42 million is more than five ...

On Thursday, Durham police presented their first quarter crime report from January through March to the city council. Juvenile criminal offenses skyrocketed by more than 100%, going from 103 in ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Winston-Salem city leaders held a news conference at 3 p.m. Monday to address a recent rise in disruptive juvenile behavior in downtown Winston-Salem. The event took place ...

Winston-Salem switched to app-based parking. It's more convenient—but now costs $1.50 an hour, six times more than before, and not everyone is happy.

Winston-Salem offers firefighters have roughly twice as many sick days, vacation and holiday leave than for other city employees. Pate said that applies to many neighboring fire departments, as well.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) student wanted in connection with a campus shooting on Friday has turned himself in. Winston-Salem Police responded to campus after ...

Addressing complaints of ShotSpotter's cost, Chittum said that the alert system's ability to save lives is worth the price tag. "I think, personally, it's hard to put a price tag on a human life ...

Others later canceled their ShotSpotter contracts or chose not to renew them, citing a low confirmation of shootings, the cost, and its underwhelming effect on gun violence.

Meanwhile, several other cities in North Carolina continue to use ShotSpotter. One of them is Fayetteville, where activists have raised concerns about the role it may have played in a man’s ...

The Winston-Salem City Council voted unanimously on January 4, 2021, to approve a three-year contract with ShotSpotter, using nearly $700,000 in federal grant money to fund it.

ShotSpotter arrived in Winston-Salem in 2021, as city leaders concerned about an uptick in gun violence desperately sought solutions. “Now, more than ever, we want to get a better handle on gun ...

So have Durham, Winston-Salem, and Charlotte, which ended its $160,000-a-year contract for the technology in 2016 after four years, saying that the “return on investment was not high enough to justify ...